Search for Advanced Materials Aided by Discovery of Hidden Symmetries in Nature

ScienceDaily 
April 4, 2011

A new way of understanding the structure of proteins, polymers, minerals, and engineered materials will be published in the May 2011 issue of the journal Nature Materials. The discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the possibilities for discovering or designing materials with desired properties.
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